ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

There was a time in America when most of the proposed forced-birth laws allowed for abortion in the case of rape.  Alas, this is no longer...

Remember when our Supreme Leader withdrew the US out of the twelve-nation Trans-Pacific partnership, the free trade deal Obama had begun t...

Microsoft is having its own Damore moment !  An internal discussion wonders if women are innately unsuited for engineering and similar fi...

1.  I caught myself in the online information bubble when I realized that my Twitter feed covered the New Zealand massacre and its afterma...

I take my humor where I can find it in this valley of grief (and of automatic vehicles and sex robots).  It's too bad that my sense of ...

The Pew global opinion surveys are very informative.  Two fairly recent ones deserve a closer look.  The first is from last December . ...

The second volume of the Mueller report asks if the president of the United States, one Donald Trump, obstructed or tried to obstruct justi...

I just finished reading the first half of the report which covers the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between people in the ...

This TPM piece casts light on a very interesting phenomenon in American presidential politics:  The desire to elect a king, a figurehead, a...

The burning of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris makes my heart heavy.  So much beauty, so much history, so much art expressing human spiri...

Of course we all knew that this would happen: As the world stared in wonder this week at the first image of a black hole, a new star...

1.  Katie Bouman had an important role to play in the development of the computer program which made the black hole photograph possible: ...

Out with the old and in with the new!  It's that time of the year, the time to sweep out the cobwebs and to notice that windows might a...

 The Equal Pay Day 2019 was last Tuesday, the 2nd of April.  It's a day created to remind us how much longer women, on average, must ...

Agnes Varda has died at the age of ninety : Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave...

The Sultan of Brunei, with age, seems to have become more and more religiously fanatic and rigid.  He is an autocrat in Brunei, an oil-ric...

Christopher Ingraham has written some fascinating stuff in yesterday's Washington Post about how often American adults have sex.  Wit...

1.  These cartoons by Karoliina Korhonen are about the introverted nature of native Finns.  If you are an introvert, too, you may like th...

These snippets are from my recent readings. 1.  Given that conspiracy theories (Pizzagate, Perfect Storm) are now an integral aspect of p...

1.  The first woman has won the coveted Abel prize in mathematics: Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and professor at the Univ...